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Mem Lib/E
Contributor(s): Morrow, Bethany C. (Author), Nankani, Soneela (Read by)
ISBN: 1538507390     ISBN-13: 9781538507391
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $44.10  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: May 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction - Steampunk
- Fiction | Fantasy - Historical
- Fiction | Literary
 
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Publisher Description:

Mem is a rare novel, a small book carrying very big ideas, the kind of story that stays with you long after you've finished reading it.

Set in the glittering art deco world of a century ago, Mem makes one slight alteration to history: a scientist in Montreal discovers a method allowing people to have their memories extracted from their minds, whole and complete. The Mems exist as mirror-images of their source-zombie-like creatures destined to experience that singular memory over and over, until they expire in the cavernous Vault where they are kept.

And then there is Dolores Extract #1, the first Mem capable of creating her own memories. An ageless beauty shrouded in mystery, she is allowed to live on her own, and create her own existence, until one day she is summoned back to the Vault. What happens next is a gorgeously rendered, heart-breaking novel in the vein of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

Debut novelist Bethany Morrow has created an allegory for our own time, exploring profound questions of ownership and how they relate to identity, memory, and history, all in the shadows of Montreal's now forgotten slave trade.


Contributor Bio(s): Morrow, Bethany C.: -

A California native, Bethany C. Morrow spent six years living in Montreal, Quebec. Her speculative literary fiction uses a focus on character and language to engage with, comment on, and investigate worlds not unlike our own. Mem is her debut novel. She currently resides in upstate New York.

Nankani, Soneela: -

Soneela Nankani, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, is a classically trained actress, voice-over artist, and singer who has had roles in film and on television. She has worked with the award-winning Sojourn Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Kansas City Repertory Theatre.